Oskar Gullstrand and Tove Berglund direct a glossy promo for Show Me Love. Paying homage to fashion, culture and sex, Tove Styrke says: ”The video consists of three parts. The performance, where I wanted to channel classic starlets from the silver screen and pay homage to voguing. The fantasies, where the mass scenes and the birth of Venus to me are representations of sex and feminine energy. And lastly, we have the Rapunzel guitar solo as a metaphor for masturbation."Indeed. The soft pastel colour scheme and vintage art direction create an absorbing, nostalgic world which blends fantasy and reality, and it's clear that Styrke is having the time of her life bringing these visions to fruition. "This is one of my absolute favourite videos I’ve made." continues Styrke. "It’s fun and weird and serious at the same time, and I think it really shows how I feel about this song.”

Metronomy relive their teenage years in Juliet Casella and Thibaut Caesar's warmly nostalgic video for Things Will Be Fine. Band frontman Joseph Mount describes the video as “a sort of pseudo role-play therapy session in which we all re-visit our teenage selves.” And as such the five bandmembers each have their own well-observed vignette, recreating the byegone age of the late Nineties/early Noughties, reflecting on some of their childhood ambitions and dreams. So we see Metronomy revisit old social media platforms (on a first-gen iMac), first-time attempts at shaving, saving a guinea pig on the loose, and suffering from teen ennui - all unfolding within the same house. It's glued together by a band performance, which also has the feel of a teen band try-out, in the living room.With a concept that flows directly from the song's lyrics, the video delivers on bringing those themes to life in way that's pitch-perfect for the band. The art direction and set design are top-notch, as are the performances. It makes for a memorable, charming video - and confirms a fairly evident fact that Metronomy are a marvellous video band.But apparently, making this video did take its toll. Joseph Mount concludes: “Everyone ended up more scarred than they did before making it - apart from Michael [Lovett] and his fucking guinea pigs.” And that's that.

A young woman pours the ashes of her beloved late mother into her running shoes and leaves her suburban home - wielding a pole vaulter's pole - in a race against time...Hard Drive Gold, the latest release ahead of alt-J's fourth album The Dream (out on Feb 11th) has a video that follows in the tradition of the band's consistently excellent track record in visuals - particularly those that put a different spin on dramatic suspense. In this case, it comes from a new directing duo, consisting of an alt-J bandmember and his partner: Newman-Wallace are the band's singer and guitarist Joe Newman, and choreographer Darcy Wallace. We follow the young woman - played by Ellie McCartney - as she drags the pole from her garage, and then pounds through nearly empty suburban streets with it, as if she is on the longest-ever pole vaulter's run-up. This striking image is made even more mysterious by the context - the imminence of a nuclear attack and, as a result, the mostly panic-stricken behaviour of her neighbours.Finally she reaches her destination - but can she complete her leap before the missiles strike?Newman-Wallace's highly cinematic directing debut was shot by Krzysztof Trojnar, and executive produced by Andrew Law, longtime commissioner of alt-J's videos, now head of music and special projects at Biscuit Filmworks."It was a great privilege to work with Joe and Darcy on their debut piece of filmmaking,which I think is a brilliant music video that stands tall next to the rest of the band's enviable canon of work," says Law. "Biscuit and alt-J have worked very successfully together in the past, and we were thrilled to build on that relationship with Hard Drive Gold. Newman-Wallace has a very bright filmmaking future, and we’re all very excited about what happens next.”

A thief plots to steal the goose that lays golden eggs, but things go awry, in this intriguing video by brother-directors Tom & Theo for electro-pop duo Cheap Electric Pink Wool.By mixing live action with visual effects and animation, Tom & Theo build this allegorical tale, with real imaginative flair - including having the bandmembers, playing the golden goose thieves, interchanging their identities.

Directing team Racer direct a vibrant multiformat visual for Artemas. The video for Real Life is saturated and nostalgic, evoking carefree early Noughties vibes with a playful and breezy aesthetic. Interweaving DV footage and animated assets, the video balances an anachronistic approach with a fresh perspective."The track reminded us of songs you would hear from early 2000s grunge bands when we were kids," say Racer. "So it was important to us to create a nostalgic world for Artemas and his friends to hang out in."The directors know their source material well, and it shows in the final project, which feels like it could have been plucked right from MTV back in the day.

Ami Hanna self-directs a visual and auditory representation of memento mori art and philosophy, alongside fellow director Evan Moore. Coruscating lights and hypnotic layered vignettes elevate the transcendent aesthetic, whilst the fire effects and floral iconography create a dream world which exists somewhere between fantasy and reality. Beautifully realised and executed, the concept perfectly reflects the themes of the track, whilst taking fresh inspiration from a uniquely haunting art form.

Alekxandr teams up with Jane Moriarty to co-direct a one-shot journey from romantic optimism to an emotional storm.As the singer-songwriter performs to camera what appears to be a cozy interior, altered lighting offers suggestions of what is coming later on - light and shade turns to wind and rain, as Alekxandr uses the camera to reflect volatile emotions of grief.Filmed at Southwark's Platform Art Studio - where the song was written a year ago - the environment around Alekxandr's performance, created by artist-in-residence Harry Whitelock, is of a painter working to conjure their muse whilst using colours that suggest the flower of the songtitle.Alekxandr has been directing and producing his own visuals since he made his debut in 2018 with the evocative a l t c r y s t a l s. He says: “We wanted to make the elements rage indoors to express how dramatically your inner life can change regardless of what's happening outside”.Co-director Jane Moriarty adds: “I wanted to centralise Alekxandr’s performance and connection to the camera. We both come from a theatre background, so having all the lighting, production and performance elements happening live, with no room to fix anything in post was a challenge we totally embraced."

808VIC finds himself in an ever-expanding winter jumper, in new directing team Marcus Forde and Vivian Vince's charming debut for Lived To Love.The video features 808VIC in a pastel-hued bedroom-like space, getting to grips with the huge woollen garment which threatens to absorb him completely. The gentle, whimsical mood is maintained throughout by the self-proclaimed "partners in slime", who say they were partly inspired to explore the idea of comfort clothing by Vivian's "cartoonishly long arms".The scene-stealing pullover in the video actually boasts 30 metre long sleeves - knitted lovingly by Vivian's mum, Helen. “Vic gave us free reign on the video concept," say Forde and Vince. "We both loved the song and wanted to push the fuzzy, cozy feeling we got from it as much as we could.”